Politička korupcija u Srbiji
POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN SERBIA

Author(s): Milica S. Joković Pantelić, Branka Matijević
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Government/Political systems, Political behavior, Corruption - Transparency - Anti-Corruption
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: political corruption; political trust; political institutions; political parties; media; authoritarianism
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the forms and causes of political corruption in Serbia. The relationship between systemic and political corruption is particularly considered, including the consequences of political corruption for political and institutional life. The analysis also covers the role media is having in paying attention to the importance of and the fight against political corruption respectively. The paper is aimed at showing the way that Serbian citizens perceive political corruption. Relying on the data from the “Value Attitudes of the Citizens on to the Democratic Transformation of Serbia in the Past Three Decades (1990–2022)” online research, conducted by the Centre for Political Research and Public Opinion of the Institute of Social Sciences, this study is directed towards examining the hypothesis regarding the perception of prevalence of political corruption, and its connections to political trust, authoritarianism and the trust in traditional media. The results show that the citizens find political corruption to be a widespread phenomenon. The research confirms that the respondents who think that political corruption is spread wider have less trust in political institutions and political parties. Moreover, trust in traditional media is lower among these respondents. The results also show that the respondents with a lower score on the authoritarianism scale are more likely to believe that political corruption is a widespread phenomenon.

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